my connection problems should be gone now - I moved to another place, ordered my own connection and set up my own network using a Motorola modem (signal source) connected to an ancient Linksys BEFSR11 router (gateway) connected to a TP-Link TL-WA501G wireless AP. It's not state of the art and gets laggy at times (the Linksys router is kind of broken), but I'm back online!

Thanks for all the help and pieces of good advice I got from you in this thread.

my connection problems should be gone now - I moved to another place, ordered my own connection and set up my own network using a Motorola modem (signal source) connected to an ancient Linksys BEFSR11 router (gateway) connected to a TP-Link TL-WA501G wireless AP. It's not state of the art and gets laggy at times (the Linksys router is kind of broken), but I'm back online!

Thanks for all the help and pieces of good advice I got from you in this thread.